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I honestly can't read any of these posts that say we may go 6-6 and go to a bowl. I read two of those and got a nose bleed and woke up two hours later. I really believe you are living in a dream world, a drug-induced Jim Morrison playland of winged gypsies and villains from Disney movies. How can you possibly think any sort of positive outcome to this season is possible?

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TAMU- WIN (If we can beat Vandy and Ole Miss we will have momentum coming home [TAMU only beat ole miss by 3])

New Mexico State- WIN

Georgia- Loss (Unless things drastically change)

Alabama A&M- WIN

Alabama- Loss (Unless miracle)

So that'd leave us (6-6) with a bowl game i'd rather not be admitting we are going to, and we'd probably win the bowl game bringing in a not so embarrassing (7-6).

Thoughts?

Best case: Win 3 or 4 games, fire CSL at end of season, get a real OC, with morre than 1 year experience from Temple for $od's sake! Hopefully finish with a top 10 or 15 recruiting class. If u are expecting anything more you must be writing from one of the Disney Parks!

Once costs are estimated, implement a step by step procedure to upgrade both bricks and mortar and personnel.

Inform present staff that should find other employment and hire new people that can get the job done.

Executive summary: Get rid of the deadwood that can't perform and replace them with people who can.

I like the general approach here, though I've never understood the fascination with this "consulting" business on hires. Dr. Gogue is the president and earns about $600K per year, plus housing and other perks to hold that title. I presume that the job actually comes with it. I appreciate that he is a delegating CEO. That is fine. But that philosophy still carries a necessity to measure outcomes on a regular basis. Jay Jacobs is his direct report. Jay's outcomes aren't measuring up. Time for his boss to be a little more active, again, on his own, without a $250K contract for someone else to show him the last five years of SEC standings across all sports, particularly the money sports and the most popular non-money sports. By my account, swimming is still doing well and women's soccer has actually been on an upward trajectory. Save the football anomaly of 2010 -- I'm darn glad for it, but it's still an anomaly -- are there any other programs that we can honestly say are on an upward trend or are otherwise settled at an acceptable level of achievement?

Once costs are estimated, implement a step by step procedure to upgrade both bricks and mortar and personnel.

Inform present staff that should find other employment and hire new people that can get the job done.

Executive summary: Get rid of the deadwood that can't perform and replace them with people who can.

I like the general approach here, though I've never understood the fascination with this "consulting" business on hires. Dr. Gogue is the president and earns about $600K per year, plus housing and other perks to hold that title. I presume that the job actually comes with it. I appreciate that he is a delegating CEO. That is fine. But that philosophy still carries a necessity to measure outcomes on a regular basis. Jay Jacobs is his direct report. Jay's outcomes aren't measuring up. Time for his boss to be a little more active, again, on his own, without a $250K contract for someone else to show him the last five years of SEC standings across all sports, particularly the money sports and the most popular non-money sports. By my account, swimming is still doing well and women's soccer has actually been on an upward trajectory. Save the football anomaly of 2010 -- I'm darn glad for it, but it's still an anomaly -- are there any other programs that we can honestly say are on an upward trend or are otherwise settled at an acceptable level of achievement?

Consulting firms don't have to follow the strict guidelines that a University has to. A University has to ask for permission to talk to an employee of another University, a consulting firm doesn't. Consulting firms also usually have a broader base to work from. Example, they work more closely with agents and it is easier for them to put "feeler's" out there than a University would. I like the idea of using a consulting firm myself. It gets away from using the "good old boy network" as the source for making a hire. Now the bottom line is.....you have to have somebody that is competent enough to make the final decision on a hire. This is just my opinion....we don't have that right now.